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WJM. SMITH. GOFFIN-HANDLE SOCKET.

No. 244,681. Patented. July 19,1881..

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WILLIAM M. SMITH, OF MERIDEN,

PATENT OFFICE.

CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRITANNIA COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

COFFlN-HANDLE SOCKET.

SPEIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent NO. 244,681, dated July 19, 1881.

' Application tiled June 13, [881. (No model.)

To all 'whom @t may concern:

Be it known that I, WM. M. SMITH, of Meri-V den, inthe county of New Haven and State of Connecticut,haveinventedanew Improvement in Coffin-Handle Sockets; and Ido hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawingsv constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a front view; Fig. 2, a section on line x a'. I T

This invention relates to au improvement in the construction of the sockets by which coflinhandles are attached, the object being to combine several materials in the socket, whereby a more ornamental and tasteful socket may be produced; audit consists in constructing the body of the socket with arms projecting from the body of the socket recessed upon their under side to receive and hold the border-pieces, as more fully hereinafter described.

A represents the base of the socket, constructed with the usual ears, a a, to receive the handle-lever, and providedv with screw-holes for its attachment to the cofn. Projections B Y erably perforated, as at b, so that tacks may be inserted lthrough the projections into the border-pieces to secure the border to the projections.

The projections B may be made in any ornamental shape, it only being essential that they be recessed upon their under side to receive and hold the border-pieces. In case of a-poly'gonal shape, the projections are best made at each angle.

Instead of securing the border-pieces by v recessed upon their under side, so as to extend over the border-pieces and be the means of securingthose pieces in place.

I claim- A The herein-described coffin handle socket, consisting of the metal center, with projections extending therefrom recessed upon their under side, combined with border-pieces introduced to and held in Iplace by said recessed projections, substantially as ,described WILLIAM M. SMITH. Witnesses:

J. H. CARRIER, E. E. WEST. 

